Sher K J, Frost R O, Kushner M, Crews T M, Alexander J E
Behav Res Ther. 1989;27(1):65-9. doi: 10.1016/0005-7967(89)90121-6.
Thirteen checkers and twelve noncheckers, identified on the basis of their responses to the checking subscale of the Maudsley Obsessional-Compulsive Inventory (MOCI; Rachman and Hodgson, 1980), were recruited from a sample of 99 consecutive admissions to the outpatient department of a community mental health center. Consistent with our previous research with nonclinical samples of college students (Sher et al., 1983, 1984), checkers were found to show deficits in memory, especially recall for recently completed actions, compared to noncheckers. This result demonstrates the replicability of our previous findings across different types of samples and implicates deficits in memory for actions as a potentially important determinant of checking behavior. Assessment of spontaneous imagery associated with the anamnestic process suggested that checkers utilized less imagery, especially visual imagery, when recalling biographical information. Additional measures collected at the time of testing indicated that checkers were more neurotic and reported more psychological distress than noncheckers.
从一家社区心理健康中心门诊部连续收治的99名患者样本中招募了13名检查者和12名非检查者，这些患者是根据他们对莫兹利强迫观念-强迫行为量表（MOCI；拉赫曼和霍奇森，1980）检查分量表的反应来确定的。与我们之前对大学生非临床样本的研究（谢尔等人，1983年、1984年）一致，发现检查者在记忆方面存在缺陷，尤其是与非检查者相比，对近期完成动作的回忆存在缺陷。这一结果证明了我们之前的研究结果在不同类型样本中的可重复性，并表明动作记忆缺陷是检查行为的一个潜在重要决定因素。对与回忆过程相关的自发意象的评估表明，检查者在回忆个人经历信息时使用的意象较少，尤其是视觉意象。测试时收集的其他测量结果表明，检查者比非检查者更神经质，报告的心理困扰也更多。
